Ish,
I'll still bet ya' ten to one that that white Cougar had been stolen from someone else at one time. In days past, it was a simple matter to dummy up license plates and pink slips. In fact, my thief had tried to register my car as his own. He had even taken his driver's test in the car. When I recovered the car I learned all this, and more, including the fact that the thief was a pro with a long rap sheet.
But you are right. If your vehicle is stolen, you are pretty much on your own to recover the vehicle. The people you think are there to help you and do the right thing, aren't. A quirk in California at the time of my theft was that a police officer must run a plate and registration, specifically asking if a car is stolen. To simply run the plate does not reveal the fact that the car is stolen; it merely returns the name and address of the registered owner. Whether this procedure has changed over the years, I do not know.
If you are well insured it is sometimes better if you don't recover the vehicle. <g> In retrospect, objectively speaking, I think it would have been better if I had not tried so hard to find my car and just gone with the one I bought with the insurance check.
Holly |
